Comments on: Miner Problems, Major Paralysishttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/miner-problems-major-paralysis/
a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justiceSat, 27 Sep 2014 17:28:19 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3By: Don Hawkinshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/miner-problems-major-paralysis/#comment-74028
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 12:02:46 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=22399#comment-74028Darn I just can’t help myself you all at Fox just did a little talk about education in America well again just on the off chance the 95% are correct my kid’s and there kids and everybody else’s kid’s are going to get an education all right in the art of survival. Can you tell people that?
]]>By: Don Hawkinshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/miner-problems-major-paralysis/#comment-74027
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:52:17 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=22399#comment-74027Oh I forgot now just on the off chance the 95% of the best minds we have today are correct and the 5% are not that seem to have the same fair and balanced agenda as you all at Fox that just doesn’t seem all that fair and balanced to me. Money talk’s does it.
]]>By: Don Hawkinshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/miner-problems-major-paralysis/#comment-74026
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:36:21 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=22399#comment-74026Am watching you friends at Fox New’s and you just said the American people are speaking out. Speaking out ok how about this the best kept secret of all time and how can anybody speak out on something that’s never heard?

What had become clear was that our planet is close to climate tipping points. Ice is melting in the Arctic, on Greenland and Antarctica, and on mountain glaciers worldwide. Many species are stressed by environmental destruction and climate change. Continuing fossil fuel emissions, if unabated, will cause sea level rise and species extinction accelerating out of humanity’s control. Increasing atmospheric water vapor is already magnifying climate extremes, increasing overall precipitation, causing greater floods and stronger storms.

It becomes clear that needed actions will happen only if the public, somehow, becomes forcefully involved. One way that citizens can help is by blocking coal plants, tar sands, and mining the last drops of fossil fuels from public and pristine lands and the deep ocean.
However, fossil fuel addiction can be solved only when we recognize an economic law as certain as the law of gravity: as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy they will be used. Solution therefore requires a rising fee on oil, gas and coal – a carbon fee collected from fossil fuel companies at the domestic mine or port of entry. All funds collected should be distributed to the public on a per capita basis to allow lifestyle adjustments and spur clean energy innovations. As the fee rises, fossil fuels will be phased out, replaced by carbon-free energy and efficiency.
A carbon fee is the only realistic path to global action. China and India will not accept caps, but they need a carbon fee to spur clean energy and avoid fossil fuel addiction.
Governments today, instead, talk of “cap-and-trade-with-offsets”, a system rigged by big banks and fossil fuel interests. Cap-and-trade invites corruption. Worse, it is ineffectual, assuring continued fossil fuel addiction to the last drop and environmental catastrophe.
Stabilizing climate is a moral issue, a matter of intergenerational justice. Young people, and older people who support the young and the other species on the planet, must unite in demanding an effective approach that preserves our planet. James Hansen

Now just on the off chance Hansen is correct and about 95% of the other best minds we have today unless that can happen and yesterday would have been good well let’s read this and maybe Beck can put it on his blackboard.

The crucified planet Earth,
should it find a voice
and a sense of irony,
might now well say
of our abuse of it,
“Forgive them, Father,
They know not what they do.”

The irony would be
that we know what
we are doing.

When the last living thing
has died on account of us,
how poetical it would be
if Earth could say,
in a voice floating up
perhaps
from the floor
of the Grand Canyon,
“It is done.”
People did not like it here.
— Kurt Vonnegut

Not fair and balanced oh yes it is and that’s the problem now isn’t it.

Yes that right blame the poor for not wanting to pay taxes while Capitalism continue to rob from the poor to feed the rich.

That line must have been thrown in to make sure we actually read the article.

]]>By: John Andrewshttp://dissidentvoice.org/2010/09/miner-problems-major-paralysis/#comment-74020
Sun, 26 Sep 2010 06:50:51 +0000http://dissidentvoice.org/?p=22399#comment-74020“Except no one is coming to save us. It’s up to us. So if you feel moved to pray for those trapped miners, you might also spare a few words for the rest of us.”

If no one is coming to save us, if it’s up to us, what is the point of prayer?

I’m just asking the question. I agree we’re on our own, so it’s actually not helpful to suggest that prayer might provide a solution. It won’t.

But things are not quite as bleak as this and plenty of similar articles portray. The writer is completely wrong when he says: ” nobody wants to be the grownup in America.” It isn’t helpful to criticise people for something they’re almost powerless to change. The one and only hope there is lies in the people: ridiculing them is not constructive. The one and only power the elites truly fear is the people, so that power needs to be nurtured and educated, not sneered at.

The pathetic turnouts at general elections, despite the relentless propaganda that props up and polices our non-democracies, is a fairly clear indication that a sizeable chunk of the population know exactly what’s going on, and know their participation is irrelevant for any reason other than perpetrating the sham of our so-called ‘democracy’.